"Bright worms" with Louise Michel Jackson
- Dancenter Vietnam
- Apr 18
- 2 min read
About Bright Worm
In a low-fi performative universe with abyssal colors and iridescent surfaces, Louise Michel Jackson's research focuses on a bodily, sound, and visual experience around bioluminescence and the need to generate one's own light. Some living organisms produce this light to communicate, seduce, protect themselves, or even lure their prey.
She is inspired by this phenomenon in order to materialize and honor in each human being this intimate radiance, drowned in the blinding artifice of contemporary indifference and emptiness.
A laboratory of the senses where textures, materials, reflections, and distortions create a microcosm that is both strange and welcoming, this research focuses on a universe between the intra-uterine world and the marine world, that is open to bursts of life, to sound signals from the past and elsewhere. Louise creates different paths of attention between micro and macro that offer an intimate and dreamlike vision of the world.
Attention is directed to the "subtle glows", such as those of fireflies, contrasting with the "big spotlights" that usually squander our attention, swallow our listening, and stifle our collective poetry.
INFORMATION:
Artist: Louise Michel Jackson
Place: Dancenter Vietnam - 53 Nguyễn Đăng Giai, Thảo Điền, Thủ Đức, Hồ Chí Minh
Ticket: 100 000VND (200 000VND at the door)
Time & Date: Saturday - 19/04/2025
About Artist
Louise Michel Jackson questions the co-habitation and resonance between the athletic and somatic body.
Since 2018, she has dedicated herself to her research on bioluminescence - with video, light devices, and movement, in collaboration with sound artist Magali Babin.
She created a first project in collaboration with Ben Fury – STROKE aka SHUDDER, co-produced by Charleroi-Danses (OFFTA 2015, Palais de Tokyo, 2016, Tangente 2016, Raffinerie Charleroi- Danses 2017, Théâtre National de Bruxelles 2017, festival de la cité à Lausanne 2017, Accès Culture Montréal 2018).
She has worked for 20 years as a performer between Brussels and Montreal (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Dana Gingras, Simon Portigal, Adam Kinner, Fréderick Gravel). She divides her time between performance and her second passion, horticulture.
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